Dejah Carwise Timeline Project P5

Timeline Project P5 Dejah Carwise

Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Dec 31, 1970

Civil War: Battle Of Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

Confederate troops began shelling to land. Union soliders began to surrender ready to fight for war.

Civil War: Battle Of Bull Run

Jul 21, 1861

First major battle of the civil war.The Union soliders suffered near 3,000 causalties.

Civil War: Battle Of Antietam

Sep 17, 1862

Bloodiest day during the American Civil War. More americans were killed on this day than any other military history.

Reconstruction: Emancipation Proclamation

Jan 1, 1863

Helped many to gain freedom to slaves in rebellious states and enlistment of all blacks.

Reconstruction: ku klux klan

Dec 24, 1865

Organization of confederates. A terrorist group that immtimidates other ethnic groups and religious groups.

Gilded Age: Grant Elected Pres.

Nov 3, 1868

Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected president of the United States.Grant receives 214 of 294 votes in the Electoral College.

Reconstruction: Fithteenth Amendment Passed

Feb 26, 1869

Congress Passed the amendment to help extend the vote to all male citizens. No matter what their race is or their background history.

Gilded Age: Civil Rights Act Of 1875

Mar 1, 1875

Equal use of public areas and amusement. Also the exculsion of blacks on jury duty was forbided

Industrialization:Alexander Bell

Mar 10, 1876

Alexander Bell invented the first telephone. While trying to improve his telegram he invented something more complex. (telephones)

Imperialism:Berlin Conference

Jan 5, 1884

The Berlin Conference talked about the terms for african american homes. How Belgium was expanded and so was the rest of European nations. Why? becaus they didnt have boundaries when choosing their land.

Industrialization: Homestead Stike

Jun 30, 1892

Began the labor lockout and strike. Which resulted in a day-long battle with iron and steel workers and carneige steel.

Imperialism:Battle of Adwa

Jan 5, 1896

This is important because Ethiopia is one of the only countries in Africa who was able to completely resist European rule.King Menelik II used strategic advantages and played European countries against each other to maintain the Ethiopian independence.

Gilded Age: Plessy vs Ferguson

Apr 13, 1896

Plessy v. Ferguson is a landmark that the U.S decided to uphold the constitutions laws. Making racial segregation in public areas under the doctrine of "separate but equal".

Industrialization:Airplane's First Flight

Dec 17, 1903

Orville amd Wilbur Wright had their first successful flight. They used their ideas to create this aircraft.

Imperialism: Africa is under European control

Jan 5, 1914

This is important because this signifies when the European nations gained many natural resources and began to industrialize Africa. T

WW1: Assassination Of Archduke Ferdinand

Jun 28, 1914

He was shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in Bosnia, on this day in 1914.

WW1:Battle Of Verdun

Feb 21, 1916

The French held their anger against Germans until December of the same year,The longest battle of the war.

WW1: USSR

Nov 10, 1917

Russian revolutionaries setup a Communist goverment, attempting to make peace with the Central Powers.

Roaring 20's: Nithteenth Amendment

Aug 18, 1920

Was ratified on this day of 1920. Granting all women citizens the legal right to vote.

Roaring 20'S: Immigration Quota Act

May 19, 1921

Congress passed the restirctiom of immigration. It targeted immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.

Roaring 20's: Pres. Harding Dies

Aug 2, 1923

He died of an stroke, He was found dead in hhis hotel room. President Coolidge took presidency.

Great Depression: Franklin Rosevelt

Mar 4, 1933

Fixed the the unemplyment rate from 25% to 14.3%. Which made a big difference in America from the Govnerment spending money on war.

WW2: Treaty Of Munich

Sep 30, 1938

Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier of France and Mussolini Of Italy met in Munich and settled that Hitler should have the Sudetanland Of Czechoslovakia.

Great Depression: WW2 Begans

Sep 1, 1939

WW2 took away majority of money while America was going through the Great Depression.

WW2: War On Germany

Sep 3, 1939

Britian and France called war on Germany. Chamberlain annouced they were at war.

WW2: Blitzkrieg

May 10, 1940

Hitler launched the war against Holland and Belgium. Both countries were kept occupied.

Vietnam War:Japan Joins

Sep 27, 1940

Japan enters World War II. Joining the German-Italian Axis coalition.

Great Depression: America Enters WW2

Jan 1, 1941

Help destroy last remains of the Great Depression. U.S employment rate dropeed as low as 10%

Vietnam War:Hiroshima

Aug 6, 1945

The United States drops an atomic bomb the first to be used in warfar on Hiroshima.killing 75,000 people

Cold War: Iron Curtain

Nov 6, 1946

The boundary that separated the warsaw pact countries From the NATO countries. It represented the way Europe was viewed.

Vietnam War:First Indochina War

Dec 19, 1946

The Viet Minh attacks French forces.The First Indochina War, also called the Franco-Vietnamese War, begins.

Cold War: Marshall Plan

Apr 7, 1948

An American Program to help aid Europe. U.S gace support to help rebuild European countries.

Civil Rights Movement: B.v.BE

May 17, 1948

The court agreed that the segregation of students was unfair. Making a large- scale of desegregation.

Civl Rights Movement: Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1948

A NAACP memeber who refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man. This led to the bus boycott responded from the black community.

Cold War: Berlin Wall (Creation)

Aug 13, 1961

Berlin Wall was erected for about twenty-eight years. It kept Germans from fleeing to the West.

Civil Rights Movement: "Letter from Birmingham jail"

Apr 16, 1963

Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.He wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," stating that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws